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1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.1Technology for social transformationhttps://www.concentrerinfotech.com/technology-for-social-transformation/
https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/technology-for-social-transformation/#respondSun, 05 Mar 2017 15:24:34 +0000https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/?p=213Mario thought about how school canteens could take advantage of foods that, in supermarkets, were meant to be discarded. Agustina created a tool that allows for a rapid HIV test. Agata believed it was possible to build bridges between deaf and hearing people. A group of students imagined that cell phone could be the means to warn about growing up of neighbors who live on the banks of a river. Another concluded that gathering information on alternatives without Tacc (wheat, oats, rye and barley) could help improve the quality of life of thousands of celiacs. Massimiliano knew from the ground up that the key was to bring resources closer to other organizations and he did so. All of them, like the vast diversities of their experiences, are crossed, invisible, by a common denominator: technology.

Civic, social impact, innovative, meaningful. Whatever their qualifier, they are tools that, in this world where the digital dominates, put technology at the service –to a greater or lesser extent and scale– of social transformation. Applications, mapping, collective construction platforms, web sites and social networking sites are just some of the examples in which information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) enable responses to problems, visibility of demands, or management of solutions to specific needs. And, in the midst of them, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) once again appear as protagonists.

Nobility Obliga, a social innovation institution that developed an online crowdfunding platform “ ” brings together those who need funds to carry out their causes with those who want to donate or collaborate,” explains Victoria Ciccola, communications and press manager. The causes can be a treatment for a health problem, a scholarship, a slide for a square, or Christmas baskets for families without resources.

In numbers, the organization has allowed the collection of 10 million pesos in crowdfunding, between individuals and contributing companies, and more than 600 social causes financed.

Social networks

When it comes to helping, social networks also add up. This is the case of Facebook, which in recent years began to have a presence as a tool of community assistance in crisis situations, such as epidemics or natural disasters. The most recent case was the role he played in the earthquake in Mexico, in which thousands of people used him to communicate with family and friends and tell them that they were safe or to ask for help.

“In such situations people use Facebook to inform friends and family who are well, to help in the recovery efforts of affected communities. After the earthquake in Mexico, more than 10,000 people used the community aid tool to offer or ask for support, from water and food to shelter and internet access,” the company tells Third Sector. Faced with this disaster situation, Facebook activated Safety Check, “a tool that is enabled when it is detected that a significant number of people located in the same area publish content about an emergency situation.”

Moreover, they add, “was made available to the tool Community Help for that people to look and offer help, such as food, shelter and transportation after any crisis situation,” which made it to register “around 10,000 offers of assistance to victims, such as food, water, shelter, transportation and internet connections”.

Facebook has another tool called a disaster map, which allows humanitarian organizations to know where the affected people are located, an information that is otherwise impossible to obtain.

]]>https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/technology-for-social-transformation/feed/0Social technology for developmenthttps://www.concentrerinfotech.com/social-technology-for-development/
https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/social-technology-for-development/#respondSun, 05 Mar 2017 15:07:09 +0000https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/?p=206One of the interesting cycles organized by the Executive Club is called “Motors of the economy in Paraguay”. It intends to make known in depth those sectors that drive the country’s economic growth.

We have had the opportunity to hear the cases of Agriculture (soybeans and derivatives) and meat, the current stars of the agricultural world and which have had extraordinary development in recent years.

While it is true that by their very nature these sectors are climate-dependent -an uncontrollable variable-it is no less true that the breakthrough has been due to a number of other factors that were handled correctly such as: a strong capital investment and constant re-investment, the incorporation of appropriate technology, animal genetics adapted, biotechnology, public-private partnerships, opening up new markets at the international level and appropriate public policies that do not hinder sector development (such as healthy Macroeconomics), competitive exchange rate).

Finally, These are successful cases in which, at the impulse of the private sector, the country has become competitive in these areas. Future prospects are encouraging, which is very important to sustain this growth in the future, which is absolutely essential if we are to combat poverty through wealth creation.

These sectors carry out their activities mainly in rural areas, where they live with thousands of peasant families who in the vast majority of cases have not been able to escape poverty, although in theory they are dedicated to the same successful areas. In other words, small farming and family farming.

In their case, they do not have enough scale and are generally unorganized to win it. They do not have the technology required to help them increase their productivity. They also do not have access to credit on favourable terms and do not have market information, or even are barely connected to it. In addition, public policies aimed at the sector have had a minimal impact.

This growing contrast is ethically unworthy. But it is also dangerous for the very sustainability of the successful sectors because of the high degree of social conflict involved. That is why we urgently need to develop a new ‘social technology’ that transfers much of the knowledge and know-how from successful sectors to the less developed ones, so that they in turn have access to the benefits of all this growth potential.

The traditional pattern of concern for these disadvantaged populations, based on philanthropy through scattered donations with little impact, does not lead to a fundamental solution to the problem. And it actually perpetuates unfavorable conditions and social discontent. But where do we find the most appropriate “social technology”?

I believe that such state-of-the-art social technology exists, and several civil society organizations have been developing it with encouraging results. The problem usually with these organizations is that they do not have the capacity to scale, since they operate primarily with “pilot schemes”. And that is where an efficient space for collaboration can be found between them and the private sector, because it is precisely the companies that have the capacity to scale certain projects.

We need to aim for strong strategic alliances that will allow the appropriate social technology to scale up to include the least favoured sectors. The opportunities are enormous, and the first step is probably to overcome the traditional mistrust between civil society organizations and business.

]]>https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/social-technology-for-development/feed/0The Mobile World Capital will organize a forum on technology at the service of the societyhttps://www.concentrerinfotech.com/the-mobile-world-capital-will-organize-a-forum-on-technology-at-the-service-of-the-society/
https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/the-mobile-world-capital-will-organize-a-forum-on-technology-at-the-service-of-the-society/#respondSun, 05 Mar 2017 14:52:51 +0000https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/?p=203This new program has a budget of 6.5 million euros, will take place under the name Digital Future Society and is based on expanding knowledge on the impact of technology in the social field and “citizen empowerment” through the digital economy, according to information submitted by the Barcelona City Council –patron of the foundation.

Economic support

The financing of this project will be shared by the different agents that make up the foundation’s Board of trustees, among which are-in addition to the local council, already mentioned-the Ministry of Economy and Enterprise and the Generalitat of Catalonia.

Secretary of State for the Digital Agenda, Francisco Polo, said the government has already committed two million to launch this initiative. “We are committed to helping as much as possible to keep the MWC in Barcelona,” he said. For its part, the foundation expects to contribute one million in own resources and will reach 6.5 million total through the entry of new corporate partners.

Generate and expand knowledge

According to the foundation’s forecasts, the forum will be held during 2019 although there is no official date yet. The director of MW Capital, Carlos Grau, this event will be unveiled at other fairs and Congresses that host the city of Barcelona and that are related to the most social aspect of technology, such as the Smart City Expo and the Internet Congress of things.

In addition to this forum, the programme will give impetus to an observatory that will study similar experiences on social technology in other countries or in international institutions. The idea is to act as a think tank on the subject. On the other hand, they plan to give a greater boost to Mobile Week to make this new technology known to society, even to take it to other cities.

]]>https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/the-mobile-world-capital-will-organize-a-forum-on-technology-at-the-service-of-the-society/feed/0Measuring social value and impacthttps://www.concentrerinfotech.com/measuring-social-value-and-impact/
https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/measuring-social-value-and-impact/#respondSun, 05 Mar 2017 14:51:03 +0000https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/?p=200In recent years, diverse and varied studies have emerged that have tried to give substance to the concept of social value and even more to provide it with consistency in the face of its recognition by each and every one of the social actors. It is not easy since, the measurement of intangibles does not have an exact quantification but, without doubt, to this day nobody questions or doubts, the contribution of value that they give to the entities, companies, administrations, etc.

It is, in the case of the third sector, where this assessment is made even more necessary if it is not exclusive of them only since the administration, the ordinary company, the consumer and the civil society are also parties involved and responsible for the Contribution of social value. The activities carried out within the third sector have in its entirety an important social contribution and it is for this very reason that the need to know the efficiency in relation to its social contribution is necessary condition in order to be able to direct and to accompany AR, not only to the development of the sector but also to the public administration and the business fabric.

One of the problems facing our society is the ignorance of the social value contributed by each of the actors that make it up. Today it seems to have no discussion as necessary and opportune to generate social value in order to achieve greater goals such as justice, equity, community development, welfare, etc., however, we do not know what is the capacity of Generate it and even less, if we generate leveraging and getting the most out of the resources we apply.

Society therefore needs a system that measures social value and, in turn, allows it to identify its generation; Quantify and solve your recovery. This value, comparable to the added value of economic processes, must be identified at its origin and destination in order that we can really talk about its recovery and introduction back into the process continuously. But as we mentioned earlier and after the points that will be discussed later, the current situation is of total indefinition. It is true that there are reports called common and popularly “social balances” but on the other hand they are very far from what you would really expect from a document with that name. Likewise, there are social audits that, not being all of them agreed by the parties involved, are also elaborated. But in both cases, none of these tools is really useful to help the knowledge of the generation of social value, the communication and the transparency of the generated value and, consequently, for the recovery of it. The need to identify, quantify, provide value, recover and reintroduce the social value provided, finds many different reasons to the extent that their knowledge can be used in very diverse ways such as:

The social value as a system of control of the internal management and the deep knowledge of the social management of an entity whatever its juridical nature. The efficiency of social entities, of public administration or of companies cannot be measured without taking into account efficiency as a generator of social value. Social entities and public administrations, given their social character They present an even greater need than in the case of companies. To solve this need for knowledge the ideal tool is the “Balance Social “that, even working on a group of values, allows to come up with a single result of the same without failing to allow the analysis of the items and the use of specific ratios that provide more information. Information, which on the other hand, has to allow the management of the generation of social value to be adapted in order to achieve the planned objectives, at the same time as a correct application of the resources.

The social value as a system for evaluating the performance of an investment. In order to attract investment to projects with a high generation of social value, the investor must be given information that will allow him to know what the performance of the project should be. Hardly an entrepreneur can be placed as a company in front of an investment, without conducting an analysis of the recovery of this. The company therefore needs to be able to dump in its system the social value in form and way to be compatible with the systems of calculation and data with which it works when making decisions. The social value also has to recover, because this is the only way to reintroduce it into the system and continue to generate more social value, it is a productive cycle.

]]>https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/measuring-social-value-and-impact/feed/0Ethics as a creation of value in the companyhttps://www.concentrerinfotech.com/ethics-as-a-creation-of-value-in-the-company/
https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/ethics-as-a-creation-of-value-in-the-company/#respondSun, 05 Mar 2017 14:44:48 +0000https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/?p=197A first point is to say that it is very important to train people who are going to be social, business, public leaders, and that is a work that starts in early childhood and is reinforced in the university. Consonant messages are required, and what is happening in society is rather that there is much dissonance.

So it makes it even harder for the formation of ethical awareness in young students, and it is more complicated later in college to work it out.

I am a professor of ethics and citizenship and in one of the classes there was a very interesting debate because one of the students said: “Professor, that which you point out about discussing the subject of values is very good, but is that viable? ‘ Cause then we go out on the street and it’s something else ” There was clearly one of the best classes, because there was a good debate on the subject, but what he expressed was his concern to see this tremendous dissonance of values that we are living in Peruvian society.

In the case of Lava Jato the key is going to be when we see important people in the country who were also engaged. One can accept that they are people of second order that out there “fell “, but when they are the leaders, then it is from the head that the thing is malfunctioning. And that’s what’s going to be more demoralizing.

There is a lot of work to be done, in the consolidation of values from a consonant scheme, where family, school and later University will contribute and aiming key principles when it comes to making decisions.

“Studies show that the brain has an inclination to be unethical. To survive had to benefit himself “

From the biological point of view, there are studies that show already clearly that the brain has an inclination to be unethical, it means: “If the person is in a situation where he has to choose for the good of the society, in this case of the company or the good per Sonal, choose the staff “because, evolutionaryly, to survive the human being has had to choose to benefit himself. So that makes the situation a lot more complex.

First, a company that lucratively advances but that is suspected of little transparent handling, I think it is a company destined not to last long.

]]>https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/ethics-as-a-creation-of-value-in-the-company/feed/0Creating shared Value: A new form of economic business successhttps://www.concentrerinfotech.com/creating-shared-value-a-new-form-of-economic-business-success/
https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/creating-shared-value-a-new-form-of-economic-business-success/#respondSun, 05 Mar 2017 14:41:33 +0000https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/?p=194As a result of the previous approach, a concept that goes beyond social responsibility, philanthropy and even sustainability is increasingly being coined more forcefully. It is about the shared value that, as Porter and Kramer define it, focuses on identifying and expanding the connections between economic and social progress. In this way, the generation of business-economic value is related and depends on the creation of value for society.

But how do you create shared value? There are three different ways to do this: Reconcibiendo products and markets, redefining productivity in the value chain and building support clusters for the sector around the company’s facilities: “Each is part of the virtuous circle of value Shared Increasing the value in one area increases the opportunities in the other “.

The essence of Porter and Kramer’s theory is that capitalism has failed to address the most important needs of society, such as health, welfare generation, nutrition, protection and environmental preservation. For this reason, and even though companies have sophisticated their products, companies have lost opportunities for innovation and growth by losing focus on the real needs of society. It is necessary, and almost indispensable, then, to rethink products and markets, because “to meet needs in underserved markets, redesigned products or different methods of distribution are often required. These requirements can trigger fundamental innovations that could also have an application in traditional markets “.

and redefining productivity in the value chain is to understand that “society’s problems can create economic costs in the value chain of a firm.” For this reason it is urgent to internalize these problems and to serve them: in order to benefit the society and the company. Companies like the British retailer Marks & Spencer or Nestle have found that making investments to strengthen local suppliers, in the long run they can get high quality raw materials in their operating areas.

Local vendor systems bring business benefits such as reduced transportation costs and supply times. And among the social and collective benefits are highlighted: the reduction of carbon emissions by reducing the needs of mivilidad, and contributing to economic development communities, generating greater recognition of the brand by having a relationship Closer to the community. Wherever you look at it is a win-win relationship.

On the other hand, cluster construction improves the company’s productivity because “capable local suppliers encourage greater logistical efficiency and easier collaboration. Having stronger local capacities in areas such as training, transportation services, and related sectors also raises productivity. And conversely, productivity suffers if there is no support cluster. ”

]]>https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/creating-shared-value-a-new-form-of-economic-business-success/feed/0Technology in construction in XXIhttps://www.concentrerinfotech.com/technology-in-construction-in-xxi/
https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/technology-in-construction-in-xxi/#respondSun, 05 Mar 2017 14:39:37 +0000https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/?p=191The great boom as one of the most outstanding activities of the 21st century; the construction that under Urban foundations creates solutions for the distribution of Housing and the best method of Transport for citizens who deserve a faster and more helpful life is increasingly using better methods for large and high skyscrapers, bridges and roads among other constructions for social benefit.

Among the people we find responsible for these changes for our good we find the civil engineer, who is responsible for doing the mathematical calculations and choosing part of the material that will be used to guarantee the solidity of the structure. The Architect is the person who plays one of the most important roles, since he is the one who designs the aesthetic part of the structure; and thus leads the staff to obtain the best possible results based on their study of architecture.

Both the architect and the Civil Engineer use the newest technology to achieve better results in their constructions and in which we can highlight new materials that speed the work by being technologically predisigned. This is where technology plays a very important role, with its development we get faster and higher and higher buildings where we can accommodate more people who would otherwise occupy more of the valuable space available.

Today we can see pictures of incredible constructions that embellish our amazement to see how incredible their arrogant and incredible designs can become. And all this is possible for better use and development of technology.

]]>https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/technology-in-construction-in-xxi/feed/0Incorporate innovative irrigation technology for livestock breedinghttps://www.concentrerinfotech.com/incorporate-innovative-irrigation-technology-for-livestock-breeding/
https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/incorporate-innovative-irrigation-technology-for-livestock-breeding/#respondSun, 05 Mar 2017 14:33:06 +0000https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/?p=188This was reported by the secretariat of COPADE, the provincial authority for science and technology, after receiving this week the resolution of the Cofectyt announcing the sending of funds corresponding to the Federal productive innovation projects line (PFIP), after having endorsed the presentation of this initiative, promoted by the undersecretary of production of the province.

” It is a project that completes what is being developed within the framework of the forage Dynamization program that is being carried out from different areas of the Ministry of production and Industry and that has added to the production during 2018, 280 new hectares, planted with forage species such as alfalfa, mijo, vicia, raigas and festuca, ” said the undersecretary of production, Amalia Sapag.

The general objective of the project is to increase the area under irrigation in an efficient and lasting way through the development and implementation of a pressurized irrigation system-called underground drip irrigation (RGS)- as an alternative to the natural limitant present in the region: aridity of the regional environment and consequent low availability of water for irrigation.

The beneficiaries of this project are Rural Development Associations, development commissions, municipalities and independent livestock producers who incorporate technology into their production and are responsible for monitoring, maintaining and monitoring it, as well as the fodder Directorate, the agriculture and livestock Directorate and its agency and regional system.

The activities they intend to carry out as part of this project will be carried out in three stages. The first involves the selection of recipients and environments, that is to say, defining the site that meets all the necessary characteristics, according to the research carried out by the beneficiary entity about the requirements to implement the technology (soil analysis and water availability for irrigation). To do this it will perform a survey.

Once the recipients are defined to implement the underground drip irrigation, the necessary technological equipment will be incorporated and training will be carried out in facilities and use.

]]>https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/incorporate-innovative-irrigation-technology-for-livestock-breeding/feed/0Livestock advances with technologyhttps://www.concentrerinfotech.com/livestock-advances-with-technology/
https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/livestock-advances-with-technology/#respondSun, 05 Mar 2017 14:30:26 +0000https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/?p=185About US$14.4 million has been invested in the implementation of the project, although for its full operation, according to program managers, they still require about RD$4 MM.

According to statistics of the livestock sub-sector, the country has more than two million heads of cattle with low productivity, which affects the dominican republic do not have the capacity to meet the demand of milk production, and it becomes necessary to define strategies to contribute to improving the competitiveness of the sector.

The Dominican Institute for Agricultural and Forestry Research (Idiaf) has launched the Project “Genetic Improvement of cattle breeding in the Dominican Republic, from tropicalized breeds”, through which embryos of vaccine breeds will be inseminated and transplanted and easily adapted to the tropical climate for the production of milk and meat.

The executive director of Idiaf, Rafael Pérez, said that annually the country has to supply local demand with imports. He explained that Dominican cattle ranching is affected by a series of problems that undermine its productivity and thus competitiveness.

He said that among the activities being carried out is the establishment of laboratories for the production of quality bovine breeds that help to grow the livestock market internationally. On his side, the director of the center of Animal Production (CPA), Gregorio García Lagombra, explained that some of the problems of cattle ranching in the country are the intolerance to the climate of the European dairy breeds in Dominican territory, low productivity of the dairy breeds, low reproductive rates, high mortality rates, little grazing ability, and high nutritional requirements, difficult to achieve under tropical conditions, among others.

He stressed that, according to the information of the Idiaf, livestock dual-purpose produces practically close to 65% of the milk and about 55% of the flesh of the country.

The embryo transplantation and in Vitro fertilization center will be established and operated at an Idiaf Experimental Station in La Vega. At the end of six months of the project, the laboratories, pens, offices, houses and potreros division of the centre will be established and the technical, administrative and Labour personnel required will be available.

The director of the CPA assured that during the introduction of the programme the health protocols approved by the International Organization of epizootic diseases (OIE) have been followed and that hygiene activities report no objection to the introduction of genetic materials into bovine production.

]]>https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/livestock-advances-with-technology/feed/0We promote agroecological management of livestockhttps://www.concentrerinfotech.com/we-promote-agroecological-management-of-livestock/
https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/we-promote-agroecological-management-of-livestock/#respondSun, 05 Mar 2017 14:26:09 +0000https://www.concentrerinfotech.com/?p=182Do the experts in the production of the different categories say that we need to technify ourselves, how necessary is the technification?

The issue of technification for the agricultural sector has always been a necessity and will continue to follow the different norms of international bodies that ensure human health. The European Union and the United States have their own, Asian countries alike, and Latin American and Caribbean countries, as do Africans and Australians.

There have also been issues of competitiveness, performance and productivity, logically it is possible to implement them, but that depends on a factor such as information, market, price and from the point of view of the producer, the possibilities of financing, but also what guarantee the producer has to be able to sell at prices that can be paid for the cost of the technology and therefore the interests of the financing.

There are other factors that have emerged recently, such as climate change…

In Nicaragua, and specifically in Matagalpa, how is technology applied in production?

In our case we are still located in technological segments that are in the process of development throughout the country, logically there are several ways there, the technologies that propose certain norms where the conventional is combined, other technologies that are more complex, but that are more beneficial both for food and health as for the environment, and there are several approaches that range from traditional agriculture, organic agriculture and organic agriculture or organic livestock, and lately a combination between traditional agriculture and organic agriculture., better known as agroecology.

The technology has not been an issue in our case as UNAG, that we worry so much, but what we are seeing is what you think the producer about the costs of such technology and more now that the costs are raised by the problems of availability of water, not only for consumption but also for production.

There are technologies that large and medium producers have the potential to implement, but there are also technical alternatives that only small producers have been able to develop.

Are technologies necessary or not?

They are necessary, but we must be open and comprehensive in order to incorporate all approaches and not discriminate against a product just because it does not strictly meet a standard in technology, which is not within the financial or economic possibilities for a producer or a producer sector.